Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral Osami ("The Elephant") Nagano, 66, who, as Japan's Chief of the Naval General Staff in 1941, issued the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; while on trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal; in Tokyo. Said he of the Pearl Harbor attack: It "achieved far greater success than I had expected. . . . . I made no mistake...
...developed for wartime parachutes but never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would quit...
...into his painting some dramatic animal-like machine like the one this week. They are almost his trademark today; perhaps you remember the flying freight-cars behind Air Transport's General George-the sea serpent submarines around Nazi Admiral Doenitz-or the pistol-pointing battleship behind smirking Admiral Nagano of the Japanese Navy...
These disasters could not be blamed on dull, purse-lipped little Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, then, as now, His Imperial Jap Majesty's Navy Minister. It was not he but Admiral Osami Nagano, Hirohito's Chief of Naval Staff and thus top Navy planner, who was the first big failure in Japan's once glamorous naval history...
Tougher than Togo's. The reason Shimada had no one to blame this time but himself was that old Nagano was no longer in the whipping-boy post. Last February he had been kicked upstairs to the job of senior adviser to the Emperor, the kind of post that navies the world over like to hand out to failures with broad stripes. When Nagano left, Shimada took over his job as Chief of Staff, thus made himself responsible for Navy strategy and grand tactics while retaining the safer administrative duties of Navy Minister...